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Teacher's Guide Students use ethnographic research to enhance their reading and understanding of The Grapes of Wrath. The ability to identify and locate specific cultural artifacts in a piece of literature helps students to understand the symbolic connotations of those elements. Specific objects and activities have stories of their own which support the larger, more global themes of a piece of literature. Ethnographic research helps students to see the connection between the social, cultural and literary contexts of literature. Procedure Introduction to American Memory - Students gain familiarity with the American Memory collections. Lesson One: Ethnography - Students read and view examples of ethnographic research. Lesson Two: Photo Analysis - Students view and analyze photographs from the American Memory collections. Lesson Three: Oral History - Students conduct a mock interview with a character from The Grapes of Wrath. Lesson Four: Material Artifacts and Textual Support -Students locate artifacts in the American Memory collections that relate to the character interviewed in Lesson Three.Lesson Five: Museum Exhibition - Students combine their findings from their interviews and artifacts into a museum exhibit. Evaluation Extension Collect additional artifacts from Folklife and Fieldwork: A Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques. Overview
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